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    • Midwest Inclusive Dance Festival

    Midwest Inclusive Dance Festival
    Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities - Field Office 2102 W. Ogden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Join us for the 2024 Midwest Inclusive Dance Festival! All bodies, minds and experience levels welcome. This is the inaugural event of the Midwest Inclusive Dance Festival! (MWIDF) will be an annual event bringing together people with and without disabilities for movement exploration. This year's event will include the following: Participants can come and go […]

    The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and Eco-Resistance

    The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and Eco-Resistance
    Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange 2124 W. 82nd Place, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Does the climate crisis keep you up at night? Do you feel hopeless and depressed thinking about the government’s response to climate change? Are you interested in activism? A eco-art therapy study called The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and  Eco-Resistance is currently recruiting participants ages 18-26 to take part in an in-person […]

    Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group

    Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group
    Online – Zoom

    The Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group provides an opportunity for Disabled-identifying people and those exploring their relationship to disability identity to share and hold space for one another in an accessible and virtual setting. The group is held virtually via Zoom on Mondays from 5-6pm CT, with one Monday off each month. Facilitated by […]

    A community organizer wearing an Access Living shirt speaks to a woman wearing a suit.

    Cambiando Vidas

    Cambiando Vidas
    Access Living 115 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Cambiando Vidas meets on the second, third,and fourth Tuesdays of every month, and provides a critical space for immigrants with disabilities to come together, organize, and effect change. Learn more about Cambiando Vidas. This is a virtual meeting that takes place over Zoom. Please contact Alma Olavarría Gallegos to get the Zoom link. Cambiando Vidas meetings […]

    White text on a pink ribbon that cuts through the center. Text reads "Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Series." Background image is a closeup on the face of a gray stone sculpture. The face has significant imperfections and damage to the temple and cheek.

    Beyond the Scar: A Virtual Portraiture Project

    Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
    Online – Zoom

    Access Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). Models’ portraits & stories will be included in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived experiences of disability, please join us! Who […]

    White text on a pink ribbon that cuts through the center. Text reads "Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Series." Background image is a closeup on the face of a gray stone sculpture. The face has significant imperfections and damage to the temple and cheek.

    Beyond the Scar: A Virtual Portraiture Project

    Beyond the Scar: A Portraiture Project
    Online – Zoom

    Access Living is looking for models to pose for “Beyond the Scar”, a portraiture project facilitated by disabled artist, art therapy intern, B Randolph (they/them). Models’ portraits & stories will be included in Access Living’s Disability Portraiture Project archive. If you are someone with apparent scars and have lived experiences of disability, please join us! Who […]

    Group of disability advocates gathered around table. White text reads, "Power to the People."

    Power to the People

    Power to the People

    The monthly meeting of ALL of Access Living's community organizing groups. Come together with your allies in housing, home and community based services, immigration, and racial justice! Contact Amber Smock to request accommodations.

    The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and Eco-Resistance

    The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and Eco-Resistance
    Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange 2124 W. 82nd Place, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Does the climate crisis keep you up at night? Do you feel hopeless and depressed thinking about the government’s response to climate change? Are you interested in activism? A eco-art therapy study called The Power of Art: Recycled Sculptures as Art Therapy and  Eco-Resistance is currently recruiting participants ages 18-26 to take part in an in-person […]

    Sustainable Liberation Series

    Sustainable Liberation Series
    UIC Disability Cultural Center 1007 W. Harrison Street, Room 231, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    The Sustainable Liberation Series is a biweekly group series facilitated by disabled art-therapists-in-training Miriam Austin-Wright (they/she). Each of the two sections will meet biweekly in-person for two hours at the UIC Disability Resource Center Quiet Lounge (Room 231). The afternoon section will meet 1-3 PM and the evening section will meet 4-6 PM.  This group […]

    Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group

    Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group
    Online – Zoom

    The Spring Peer Mental Health Support Group provides an opportunity for Disabled-identifying people and those exploring their relationship to disability identity to share and hold space for one another in an accessible and virtual setting. The group is held virtually via Zoom on Mondays from 5-6pm CT, with one Monday off each month. Facilitated by […]